EV SCAM: YOU are paying for EV owners to charge for "free" | Auto Expert John Cadogan

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@pablorages1241 Месяц назад

Free power ... for the wealthiest people in society ... people are going to love that

@stinger15au Месяц назад

wait a second, hasn't there been in the media lately how EV's are now dropping in price too fast and people are bitching about residuals. Amazing that channels like this and the media have gaslit people so hard that they are angry at BOTH sides, at the same time. That's actually amazing.

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

John gets free electrons with his solar system. Easily producing more than enough to drive an electric 40km per day the average Australian that's like 15 kWh. Hey, Imagine how expensive petrol was if the Government didn't subsidize it.

@rinzler9775 Месяц назад

Yep - pnlyy those that can afford to join the club get the benefit - and everyone else pays.

@rinzler9775 Месяц назад

@@binauralauto3621WTF - They tax the hell out of petrol

@rinzler9775 Месяц назад

@@binauralauto3621so rather than using the solar to power the household, it just gets diverted to car charging instead, which means more coal power electricity needed.

@Forever-Humble Месяц назад

This whole EV cult thing is getting ridiculously stupid.

@leealan6416 Месяц назад

Yep. Hybrids are ok. Ev's are for people who are delusional.

@ImJustWantToComment Месяц назад

all about control... in china you can only drive your electric car in certain areas otherwise it shutsdown and issues a warning

@skitariisoldier7367 Месяц назад

@@ImJustWantToComment Exactly!

@freethinker4991 Месяц назад

Here is a fact Australian Federal and state governments provided a total of $11.1 billion worth of spending and tax breaks to assist fossil fuel.

@guringai Месяц назад

Er, it's not a cult, unlike this show's typical listeners participate in.

@tonysheerness2427 Месяц назад

The less well off subsidising the better off is obscene, gross and immoral.

@guser7137 Месяц назад

You've summarized the entire green movement. More accurately I'd call it the brown movement.

@johnlaine2654 Месяц назад

Sounds like Labor Utopia again. The Only ones to win are Companies selling these products with Labor Government Handouts, in the main. Ummm, who does Chris Bowen belong to? remind me,Please? Oh Yes.., the LABOR Party!

@grellis6483 Месяц назад

New Labor. Support for those withering under the burden of excess material wealth and leisure time.

@kadmow Месяц назад

- and typical.... Just another nail in the "eat cake" movements coffin... Ends of eras do come - some fare less well than others, the smart reimagine their cause quickly..

@theduckster1980 Месяц назад

@@guser7137 I suppose it doesn't bother you that the australian government subsidzes big oil far more than any green incentives. and I assume you don't think anything of lining the pockets of these filthy rich oil companies? the very same ones who rape us at the bowser for as much as possible?

@lordoftheharvest1 Месяц назад

If the ministers car wasnt tax payer funded she wouldn't have one at all.

@guringai Месяц назад

Eh? Why wouldn't she?

@janfrosty3392 Месяц назад

@@guringai she would be driven around in a government car

@user-qu2ie1hg7w Месяц назад

Well, she could buy one herself

@verttikoo2052 Месяц назад

Your car is funded by the tax payers. Oil industry gets 5,9 Trillion dollars per year in subsidies. That is massive pile of cash for them to burn the planet down.

@DerykRobosson Месяц назад

This an example of the managerial class using you to fund their friends.

@SurmaSampo Месяц назад

WTF is the managerial class? Are we making up classes now?

@timbrandis1151 Месяц назад

"A sh*t sandwich minus the bread" - beautiful,John! WEF approved,no doubt.

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

Bs sandwich is like putting panels on your house with batteries and saying how much batteries polute the world. Imagine 15kWh is all you need to drive back and forth to work everyday. That's only 2 bucks! And Free if you have solar!

@ivanmcdonald1 Месяц назад

Mmmm one doesn't have to eat the sh#t sandwich to know one will not like it!

@alexandrustefanmiron7723 Месяц назад

Why do I have to pay for ppl that can afford 100k cars?

@N1withaskillet Месяц назад

They can't afford them. They are all leases being paid for paycheck by paycheck. Poor financial choices like that need incentives.

@richards8718 Месяц назад

Closing power stations down and want everyone to drive an EV, the grid will never handle this.

@wyattfamily8997 Месяц назад

You are using "logic" which isn't permitted under the new e-Safety Commissar if comments dare to point out Government IDIOCY.

@chrisward5626 Месяц назад

Yet we make to much solar through the day now . I let people charge for free at my shop otherwise my solar gets throttled down . If more people charged through the day we could all save 😊

@shaz8486 Месяц назад

Yes…there is NO WAY we can EVER go 100% green…it’s absolutely stupid to think we can. EV’s aren’t practical in Australia IMO. Solar power isn’t viable for our power, with all their “green ideas” they need to wake up and realise we need to be building NEW energy efficient fast burning coal power stations. Nuclear power is WAY WORSE for the planet than coal…no one will EVER convince me nuclear is the way to go….or 100% green…it’s all B.S !!!

@shaz8486 Месяц назад

@@chrisward5626they are now talking about CHARGING us for every kw we feed back into the grid off our solar power…how B.S is that !! We will NEVER install battery storage, it would be in the western side of the house with blaring full sun, a bomb waiting to go off…no thanks ! Look at how many EV’s, batteries etc have caught fire in England, way more EV B.S. there !

@sullivanrachael Месяц назад

You forget everyone cannot afford an EV. The whole point of EVs is to make cars cost more. Therefore only the better off can afford personal transport, and with fewer cars - the roads will be less crowded!! And all under the virtue-signalled net-zero zero-emission BS. It’s just not what anybody voted for.

@grahamtangey8680 Месяц назад

I have asked the local council to build a free 98 octane bowser in the car park at the end of my street. Awaiting the practical completion and handover shortly... 😉

@tomnewham1269 Месяц назад

You should of asked the NSW government. This scheme has nothing to do with councils.

@MattBlack6 Месяц назад

We're paying for 'em to buy the flamin' things as well.

@bentullett6068 Месяц назад

Remember the early Grand Tour episodes. One was a EV vs ICE challenge done between Jeremy in a Golf GTI and James in a BMW I3. I remember Jeremy going around telling people that they were paying for James car because it was being subsidised.

@guser7137 Месяц назад

And we're paying for the roads that they are using and so on.

@michaelswonderfulworld Месяц назад

Flaming yes, some

@robshe5016 Месяц назад

How about they pay for the privilege at the "pump" as you use it... surely that is the fairest way to fund the chargers..... if it's not financially viable for jolt... stiff shit...if you buy a car that is not fit for purpose because you can't charge it at home surely that is on you.. I have nothing against evs but common sense has to prevail.

@guser7137 Месяц назад

@@robshe5016 Yes there was that news story recently with some clown that was running an extension cord down the street, bemoaning the lack of chargers. How did it not enter their feeble mind to consider how they would fuel their vehicle.

@wozzie1492 Месяц назад

EV owners also not paying fuel tax for the roads we all share.

@railtrolley Месяц назад

What does the govt plan to do replace the lost revenue? If EVs become numerous enough for the the govt to notice the drop in income.

@AusKipper1 Месяц назад

@@railtrolley Stick GPS on everyones cars and charge by the KM no doubt. Happy convenience if we have another pandemic and they see your car move then can send the police to it quicker than you can say "its just a bad flu". Not to mention they will be sending you fines every time you stray over the speed limit no matter how stupidly low they have decided to set it.

@FlamencoOz Месяц назад

Road tax is coming.

@kdenyer1 Месяц назад

Uk insists on smart chargers. They will turn them off if they want to. You can also see them charging you fuel tax when you charge at home.😂😂😂😂

@Supraboyes Месяц назад

@@railtrolleythere's talks of pay per mile in the UK

@phillipmcintosh6489 Месяц назад

(1) A mate of mine just bought an MG (100% Chinese) EV and he was telling me that it only cost him $34k after the Qld Government subsidy of $6k. Another mate just drove his EV to FNQ from SEQ and was telling me how cheap it was due to various councils having free charging stations along the way. These are just 2 examples of subsidies the taxpayer is being slugged with without us ever having voted for or consulted about.

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

5.7 Billion in oil and gas subsidies in the UK. I pay for my electricity for my families Electric 100% Our solar does help but not subsidised like Johns 1400 dollar rebate! A whopping 8 bucks for a measily 300 miles to fuel our electric.

@GraemeHart8888 Месяц назад

How can this be true? I keep hearing how EVs are no good for use in Aussie due to the vast distances. Are you telling me that driving an EV is actually practical in Australia?

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

@@GraemeHart8888 Just search, How many miles does Australian driver drive per year?

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

36.4 km is the actual figure

@chrisfallis5851 Месяц назад

Here in ‘Murica we have had taxpayer funded tax credits for green energy scams for years. Working stiffs are therefore subsidizing the electric cars and solar panels of the significantly more wealthy twats.

@goldentalon Месяц назад

Communism for the rich, capitalism for you.

@morganoox3838 Месяц назад

Literally every communist state ended up like this. Filthy rich corrupt politicians. Dirt poor everyone else. Basically communism is is what we have. Just extra steps.

@JoeOvercoat Месяц назад

It’s not communism: it’s crony capitalism. It’s important to understand your enemy, especially when it’s something is simple as this, which is blatant vote buying. Well, to be fair, the virtue signaling probably gets some politicians laid, as a bonus.

@scottyfox6376 Месяц назад

Tesla's for the rich & electric scooters for the slaves.

@oskary2833 Месяц назад

Crony capitalism is communism...@@JoeOvercoat

@shanillaabdul9896 Месяц назад

@@oskary2833 You would be correct, if you completely disregard how either concept is defined

@MothershipVideos Месяц назад

Jesus when will this madness end?

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

Madness is getting solar on your home and getting 1400 bucks for it. Madness is paying 2.50 for the average Australian to travel 40km to work and back in utilities! How angry!

@chrisward5626 Месяц назад

Don’t get to upset but some power companies also offer free ev charging plans also . Free 🤷‍♂️

@JackOfski Месяц назад

@@binauralauto3621 wow are you a fkg parrot??

@JackOfski Месяц назад

@@chrisward5626 Yeah they did that in the UK to start with, now you have to pay the full rate, it's all a money making scam.

@hobo1704 Месяц назад

@@binauralauto3621 you really think they will let you have free transport 🤣 Another delusional muppet

@tigertiger1699 Месяц назад

Criminally immoral…, unbelievable the narcissism nowadays

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

What's criminal is Australia spending over 14 Billion on Oil and Gas subsidies Yikes! John gets $1400 bucks for his solar system. Imagine if he only paid for Electric instead of Petrol he would only be paying 2.50 to get to work and back on average. But he doesn't go anywhere.

@tigertiger1699 Месяц назад

@@binauralauto3621 Yeap ya right.., but poor pricks who only have enough to buy? A new car… they should rightly get a hand out from everyone including from the poorest in Aussie ffs

@philiparmbruster2396 Месяц назад

@@binauralauto3621 Just about matches "$15.71 billion in net fuel excise in the 2023-24 financial year."

@theduckster1980 Месяц назад

john is a one-sided opinion artist. There is no objectivity or fairness in his stories. There are plenty of EV advocates who are equally obtuse. Australia spends way more subsidizing the oil industry... but he has nothing to say about that lol

@chrisward5626 Месяц назад

Going to upset you even more to find out some power companies are offering free home charging plans also .

@rodneygunn788 Месяц назад

Robin Hood in reverse

@dischyd1 Месяц назад

The government should set up free filling stations for luxury boat owners tpp

@wyattfamily8997 Месяц назад

And private aircraft of course.

@SMSFgraham Месяц назад

And free chargers on the docks for their battery powered super yachts. Limit of 3 days at a time ?

@xpusostomos Месяц назад

I'm confused why you need a whole toilet block to charge one car. If that's the future, we are screwed.

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

Johns solar panels would easily charge a car only needing 8kWh to travel 40km back and forth to work everyday.

@user-lj9ld8ir1e Месяц назад

That toilet is a cyber urinal in disguise.

@NortyNige Месяц назад

Can we encourage homeless people to pitch their tents around these charging stations.

@theairstig9164 Месяц назад

I doubt it will need much encouragement

@shaynegadsden Месяц назад

The leads will be missing pretty quick

@shaz8486 Месяц назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@lesleypaterson1463 Месяц назад

And to use it as a toilet block.

@Turnipstalk Месяц назад

Good way to persuade people that all the anti-EV brigade are sociopaths who cannot tolerate the idea that other people might not agree with them.

@wascadoo8946 Месяц назад

If you can afford an EV you can afford to pay for it’s Charging! Stop Pissing on the rest of us.👍🇦🇺

@franciscoshi1968 Месяц назад

If you can afford petrol you can afford a new EV. In many cases the cost of petrol is higher than the repayments of an EV. Plenty of people that have never bought a new car are buying a new EV with petrol money.

@johnlambert1744 Месяц назад

@@franciscoshi1968 Exactly! But John is an EV hater and will never admit to this on his channel. Look at how many dual cab utes are on the road today (they're like assholes - everyone has one!! LOL) that cost more to buy and run than an EV.

@grimreaper6112 Месяц назад

@@franciscoshi1968 Heap of shit i work in the industry.

@aaron4387 Месяц назад

😢😢😢

@ianplonka1148 Месяц назад

@@franciscoshi1968are you serious. Would you buy an ev if you didn’t have anywhere to charge it.

@215Gallagher Месяц назад

As a pensioner with a car valued at $3,000 shouldn't I and my fellow pensioners be entitled to maybe a couple of litres of free petrol a day. Like most pensioners I paid tax for decades.

@N1withaskillet Месяц назад

They are only giving away 'free' electrons because they are trying to 'stimulate' the EV economy because they are all invested in it at this point. You being responsible and using what you have doesn't make their portfolios grow.

@Knight.. Месяц назад

Don't you get free rego already mate?

@215Gallagher Месяц назад

@@Knight.. No. We get a discount of 50%, something to look forward to.

@Knight.. Месяц назад

@@215Gallagher pensioners get free rego in nsw

@215Gallagher Месяц назад

@@Knight.. Damn, I'll have to register my car in Tweed Heads.

@dingopisscreek Месяц назад

All these 'incentives' to move to ev's means one thing - the vast majority of citizens DO NOT WANT AN EV. They are being foisted on an unwilling public. If they were such a good then we would be queueing up to buy them. Dealers working out some way of shifting them.

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

True, but the vast majority drive less than 40km a day. You can litterly charge more than that on a 120V 10A overnight at your house. I don't agree with FREE charging, unless your using your own Solar System like John has.

@guringai Месяц назад

A lot of people think that EVS don't work well or are going to catch on fire, based on the sort of shit propagated by The fossil fuel industry and idiots on Sky News. Frankly, EVS are fucking brilliant in our 18 month experience.

@emmett3067 Месяц назад

The vast majority didn't want to move on from horse and carriage either.

@drttgb4955 Месяц назад

@@guringai Sky News should change to Open Sewer propaganda. All conveniently forget about the Deep Horizon Oil Spill and a similar oil spills that nature and folks will never recover from.

@paulgraham5790 Месяц назад

@@guringai can you lend me the money to buy one so I can see what they are like?

@WabbitHuntn Месяц назад

If every car owner converted to EV the power network would be down within 5 mins. Never to rise again without shitting itself within 5 mins.

@Turnipstalk Месяц назад

Yes but that is hardly a realistic scenario, is it? It's what in project management we call "infinite front loading" and it's a joke about numpties who don't understand how things work. If everybody had bought electric light in 1900 such power networks as there were would be down in zero time. But today we have electric light. I wonder how that happened? Oh, and the change to CFLs and then LEDS reduced grid power consumption. If everybody had bought colour TVs in the 1960s, the power grid would have collapsed...how did that turn out?

@franciscoshi1968 Месяц назад

Power companies are offering cheap Eav charging rates. Sounds to me like EVs are benefiting the grid. If they weren't why offer a discount?

@jackfromthe60s Месяц назад

@@Turnipstalk "Yes but that is hardly a realistic scenario, is it?" It isn't? That's what they want, isn't it? Also, EV chargers pull a few more watts from the grid than a light bulb DUDE!

@Turnipstalk Месяц назад

@@jackfromthe60s I guess you grew up in a shack with only one light bulb? In the 1960s (I worked it out) allowing for night storage heating, cathode ray tube TVs, electric cookers and a realistic 400W total of electric light in winter, my parents' house must have used around 20kWH a day for at least 4 months a year. Today with gas central heating, LED lamps and flat screen TVs, 20kWH would keep the house going and run an electric car for about 80-100 km. And learn to read, no, "they" don't want everybody to have electric cars tomorrow as the OP seemed to think. The timescale for complete conversion is to around 2050 - 26 years, time to refactor the grid.

@jackfromthe60s Месяц назад

@@Turnipstalk Your first post referred to light bulbs in the year 1900. That's what my reply referred to. Now you're counter-arguing by referring to the 1960s. That's a pretty poor debating technique.

@dennisgundry3994 Месяц назад

wait till the crooks work out that the cable is full of copper wire.

@GraemeHart8888 Месяц назад

They already have in some countries.

@chrisfallis5851 Месяц назад

Easy pickings in liberal American cities. Crime is not really punished because, racism, so stealing wire from street lights and charging stations happens.

@franciscoshi1968 Месяц назад

Some crooks have tried to steal live cables. It doesn't end well.

@peterrobertson8091 Месяц назад

In NZ we charge ev drivers $76.00 per 1000 kms as we do for people driving diesel vehicles as there is no road user tax on diesel at the pump.

@harrywalker968 Месяц назад

same in u.k. here in aus, diesel is more than gas, high taxed.. in u.s. a gallon of fuel is ave $3.. $2.80 in places.. were paying $1.80 LT for fuel.. we sell lpg to over seas for 10c LT.. for there power stations.. all cars can run on lpg.. my bronco, 351c , on lpg for 25 yrs, gets 360 ks, to 90 lt.. 12.1 compression, 30 degree dizzy.. goes like a cut cat..

@user-bv4lh8yc3z Месяц назад

Hate EV's more and more every day !

@franciscoshi1968 Месяц назад

You are in for a lot of hating. Have you seen all the new EVs on the road? Or maybe you didn't know they are EVs.😅😅

@Big_Yin Месяц назад

@@franciscoshi1968we know what an BEV is it's normally driving slow AF and looks stupid maybe not as stupid as the fool behind its wheel.

@philhatherell3711 Месяц назад

The Jolt box is just as bad as all of the E- scooters and E- bikes that are left scattered all over the place in the cities. It makes the area look like a garbage dump. 🗑

@andrewf3346 Месяц назад

EV Charger boxes and their hideous cables are an eyesore to our local streets and carparks.

@BlackWolf18C Месяц назад

I did work for a company that had five EVs in their fleet and offered free charging for any of their roughly 100 employees who owned or bought an EV. To make this incentive economically viable, they had to put a $2.4M solar array on their building's roof. 2.4 million bucks in solar panels and related equipment to service just over 100 EVs... Of course, the company had engineers work the numbers up and the whole thing was going to pay for itself within 20 years, after which point all the excess power they were selling back into the grid would be pure profit. The solar array quit working after 6 months and it took almost a quarter million in repair work to fix it... Provided it all stayed working and only degraded the 25% in production they predicted over that time, it would pay for itself in roughly 30 years. Then they had to pay someone to go up there and scrub road dust off the panels every summer and blow leaves off the roof after every autumn. That was a roughly twelve thousand dollar per annum contract. Last I heard, the bosses were worried it wouldn't pay for itself at all.

@JohnH1 Месяц назад

I'm sure our weekly $20 fuel vouchers are in the mail.

@wyattfamily8997 Месяц назад

Along with the $275 power "allowance" I guess.

@iulian2548 Месяц назад

It's happening in Bruxelles as well. My neighbour with a model S and X is taking advantage when not driving his fossil Jag SUV. They are rotating the Teslas in the same free charging parking spot so other tax payers are left out.

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

Bad on the Freemongers. John just had his solar installed 1400 bucks of your tax dollars he's getting. Now imagine 14 Billion for oil and gas subsidies! Yikes. I pay taxes on these here electrons to write this message, as well as pay for Getting our Electric car around 8 Bucks of cold hard cash for 300 Miles of instant torque range. Good on the ones who pay their fair share no matter what they fuel on!

@AverageDadGamer-bg5yj Месяц назад

I have only recently stumbled across your page. Mate - I wish I had found you sooner. Amazing views that are supportive of the average citizen and dry delivery to boot. I am sharing and spreading your page far and wide!

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

John just put solar on his home 1400 bucks in subsidies from your tax dollar! 14 Billion for oil and gas, need no mention. LOL. I pay my fair share in electrons to write this message and fuel our car. Yep, 8 bucks for 300 miles of instant torque transport!

@eoin1959 Месяц назад

@binauralauto3621 Tax subsidies for home solar takes the pressure off the power grid, but tax subsidies for EV's puts more pressure back on the power grid. It might only cost you "8 bucks for 300 miles" but you are indirectly paying, as a taxpayer, for the infrastructure you are driving on and for the EV subsidies.

@garreysellars5525 Месяц назад

@@binauralauto3621 Sounds like Chris Blowens dribble

@stuartwood7252 Месяц назад

I wonder when the "i" and the "n" was dropped from the word "consult". Because it seems free charging is both a con, and an insult.

@ozzybloke4830 Месяц назад

They just removed the o & l and moved the n after u and s to the end and became them.

@mini_steve Месяц назад

I can't conceive the absolute idiotic brain that buys an electric vehicle without first even giving consideration to the ability to charge it at home. That's like Lindsay Fox selling his truck's and replacing them with Renault Twizzy's because Gretta told him to. How much glue does one need to inhale to reach that decision?

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

Well in fairness a Twizzy is a fun drive! But for the rest of us, pay your fair share. I pay for all the electrons to charge our Electric. Like 8 bucks for 300 miles of range! No more subsidies for Oil and Gas! 14 Billion of your tax dollar going to it every year! Just fooling around, don't be upset. I know John gets 1400 bucks back for installing his solar system. No hard feelings.

@mcduck5 Месяц назад

I know of someone who purchased one, Got it home and found out that it couldn't get up the driveway.... too much loose gravel and a little steep lol😊

@mini_steve Месяц назад

@mcduck5 That sounds more like user error than the vehicle itself. Or perhaps they are uneducated on buying and driving vehicles "fit for purpose." Unfortunately, we can't put the blame on electric vehicles on that one.

@Turnipstalk Месяц назад

Nor can I and I have an EV. And I get effectively free charging at home. Well, I did pay for my solar plant. I would be happy with a scheme where the electricity I return to the grid gives me a remote charging credit. I don't want anybody to subsidise me, I just want to know I'm not giving kids asthma and elderly people COPD.

@aaron4387 Месяц назад

because all those ppl with ICE vehicles have a petrol pump at their home 😂😂😂

@Investment_Hedgehog Месяц назад

Since 2009, EVs had been exempt from paying road tax here in NZ. Until recently, that is. Now they're all whining that they have to contribute to the roading infrastructure 😂 purchase subsidies have ceased, and the market is now free to play out naturally. Which is to say, I imagine in about 10-15 years, an EV will be a rare sight indeed.

@ivortoad Месяц назад

I'm sure some boutique workshops will spring up converting Tesla's to petrol power.

@WaspvsHornet-rp7ue Месяц назад

Problem with NZ is that it has no oil refinery and relies totally on imported refined product transported by non flagged NZ ships. NZ could come to some serious grief with a Geopolitical conflict. As such NZ should at the very least do a “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” and continue to encourage EV adoption.

@GraemeHart8888 Месяц назад

@WaspvsHornet-rp7ue the NZ oil refinery was dependent on imported oil. Now they import finished product instead. Either way it was imported fuel. The refinery was old, small, and inefficient.

@Investment_Hedgehog Месяц назад

@@GraemeHart8888 yet somehow, particularly since the closure, the price of fuel has gone through the roof. The refinery had no issue keeping up with national demand as far as I know. A bit of reinvestment in to upgrades and decent maintenance would have worked wonders. We have vast oil fields that remain untapped thanks to the loony lefties. We have gone from being energy secure, to being at the mercy of foreign interests.

@Investment_Hedgehog Месяц назад

@@ivortoad I've seen videos of diesel converted Toyota Prius and a V8 swapped Tesla 😂💁

@emty9668 Месяц назад

The poor subsidising the well off...... go out buy an 80-120K EV and get the plebs to pay for your charging! Wow.

@franciscoshi1968 Месяц назад

The poor buy $30k EVs with fuel money.

@kng128 Месяц назад

I paid $32k USD for EV and pay $0.10/kWh. Saves thousands per year in avoided fuel purchases.

@The_Judge300 Месяц назад

The government should give free electricity to all lower than average income homes instead of this utter nonsense. As usual are they working for the wealthy ones instead of the ones that really need some help.

@out_spocken Месяц назад

Agree. I don't even get why shopping centres allow free charging. It's virtue signalling given if they actually cared about the environment they'd boot most of the shops that are selling pointless crap that will end up in landfill in a year out of their centres. If you want to own an EV, pay your own way. Isn't that the point. You benefit from going EV. No-one is paying for me to fill up at a shopping centre.

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

I agree, always paid for my EV charging. At just 8 bucks a fillup for over 300 miles of travel. Not bad. In Australia that's 8kWh at 1.50 driving an average of 40km perday.

@GraemeHart8888 Месяц назад

It's the same reason some businesses offer fuel discounts. Offering free charging attracts customers while actually not costing the business much at all.

@franciscoshi1968 Месяц назад

Because it is cheaper to give free charging than 4c/lt fuel discounts. 4c/lt discount on 60lt of fuel is $2.40. $2.40 of electricity is 5hrs of charging at the shops while people spend money. It is cheaper to offer free charging than giving 4c/lt discounts.

@garreysellars5525 Месяц назад

Agree Environmentalists trying to save the planet Engineers design stuff with short lifespan and not repairable thus throwaway

@franciscoshi1968 Месяц назад

@@garreysellars5525 you have no idea what the requirements given to the engineers are. Here is a perfectly good one. Most people only use their phone for 18 months before they upgrade to a new one even if the old one is perfectlyfine. The phone doesn't need to last more than 30months. Any extra resources needed to make the device last more than 30 months is an economic and environmental waste. Another good example are diffs in cars. No point spending more money making a diff that will last 2M km if most cars are scrap by 250k km.

@captainsman Месяц назад

Unbelievable, they already dodge the various fuel taxes, now free electricity.

@georgeszilva1223 Месяц назад

I have to pay for parking as a taxable benefit at my work,...why do wealthy EV owners get tax rebates and free charging...wtf??

@2011Matz Месяц назад

Correct, we are paying for EV chargers. And we are also paying subsidies to the petrolium companies and breathing their excrement.

@rinzler9775 Месяц назад

Pouring more valuable tax payer money down the drain that should be used for schools, roads, hospitables, policing, community facilities - all to prop up a failed industry.

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

Exactly, Imagine your dollar going to fill up someone else's car. Like many countries paying 10 of Billions on oil and gas subsidies. I pay my fair share for electricity .14 cents per kWh to fuel our electric! 8 bucks for 300 miles charge. Now that's a fair price, NO Rebates here!

@rinzler9775 Месяц назад

@@binauralauto3621 imagine supporting an industry that enslaves children to mine so the vast amount of needed batteries can be posdible at a low price, and the massive environmental pollution. Maybe turn up thar electric car thermostat to fight that chill up the spine, and ignore the monster starring back in the rear view.

@kng128 Месяц назад

Model Y overtook Corolla as most sold car in world in 2023. How is the industry failed?

@BRETTYZCAR Месяц назад

Another reason for the shit sandwich is the fact that building strata’s are forbidding charging onsite because of fire risks.

@theairstig9164 Месяц назад

They will be outside in new build areas. For everyone else the retrofit is a bad idea for so many reasons

@orffyreusk6556 Месяц назад

Yep, not to mention the fact that your apartment's individual meterboard is probably at maximum current draw cooking your dinner with all the lights on and the aircon running. When they poured the foundations of your apartment block, the size of the copper wire from the street to the basement was "set in concrete" too. And that's the real EV infrastructure problem.

@tonymoreton7166 Месяц назад

'In a parallel universe where nothing makes sense.' If only JC. Nothing in THIS universe currently makes any sense, any more. Love progress.

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

Imagine getting solar on Johns home and getting 1400 in rebates. Now imagine paying only 1.50 to travel 40km on electric and never having to go to the shop or petrol station.

@Big_Yin Месяц назад

All that extra savings is literally going directly into that slave dug cobalt battery cost, then the rest of the BEV depreciates as fast as the battery does. So it's lose lose lose. 😂

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

@@Big_Yin car is paid for, laborers are paid for, a replacement module is just over a thousand bucks if necessary. Been driving electrics hundreds of thousands of miles with no issues at all. I've also driven some gas and diesels in the meantime and they have left me stranded in a hill climb in freezing cold weather. It was called and I was freezing waiting for the tow truck. Never have I ever done that in an Electric.

@Big_Yin Месяц назад

@@binauralauto3621 yet its depreciating heaps faster than an ICE vehicle. You're electric utopia delusion has unfolded itself and you are still in the cult. You pay more to save money yet it losses money by just existing. 🤡🌎

@garreysellars5525 Месяц назад

@@binauralauto3621 Yep my childhood imagination grew up with Superman and so on That didn't help either

@universeisundernoobligatio3283 Месяц назад

In the USA 500billon of your taxes dollars are being used to support the oil industry, helping to keep them rich.

@Creelyblades Месяц назад

i’m an EV owner and I have no expectation of a city dispensing a free dollar worth of electric. A dollar a day in free electric is not really going to change my financial situation. level two chargers are pretty cheap to install, but dispensing free energy is decidedly less cheap. Setting up level two chargers around would be a very profitable business model. if they charge just a small markup on the electricity, they would pay for themselves pretty quickly and begin to generate revenue for the city, and frankly people would use them just as much if they were not free.

@phprofYT Месяц назад

I came here for the NordVPN commercial and stayed to listen to John speak reasonable points.

@mironkorzalko7761 Месяц назад

That shoe shop might thrive as a coffee shop offering $10 lattes and $6 croissants!

@michaelkay8454 Месяц назад

Brilliant John. 👍

@zeppy2732 Месяц назад

Once again you hit the nail on the head.

@chrismitchell6274 Месяц назад

What’s the bet that there’s a diesel generator inside the toilet block!

@joecoolioness6399 Месяц назад

Always remember, the government cannot give you anything it doesn't first have to take from someone else. All subsidies do is transfer the burden of payment from those who use the goods or service to all taxpayers. I love seeing struggling people getting my sandwich not even knowing they helped me purchase and run my EV. But a lot them voted for the people doing this since they are ignorant and fell for the line that they will get more from the public bank account.

@stevelloyd5785 Месяц назад

I can't say I know the Aussie market very well, but here in Auckland, (NZ) you can't go far without seeing way more early Nissan LEAFs than any other EV. That's obviously due to the fact that we've been importing used Japanese vehicles, en masse, for many years. Heck my wife has one, built in 03/2016, bought with 6000km in 09/2017. It only charges at about 3.6kW maximum on AC depending on the EVSE in use. And if using a DC Fast (yeah right) charger it is nowhere near the 50kW rate that our previously free to use chargers are. Turns out they no longer free at 80c/kWh probably because the Tesla taxi drivers were abusing them.(suck it up dudes) Oh BTW we charge for free at home and she never goes out of Auckland so all good. When we go anywhere together we take my Outlander PHEV which also runs for free 80% of the time. Except from here on we have to pay road user charges since there is no road tax on the power account, bugger! Rant over.

@panagiotisharos9625 Месяц назад

Congratulations.. regards from Athens Greece..❤

@michaelvanderlaan5629 Месяц назад

My apprentice just got a tesla on a lease for $290/week, and the lease doesn't include charging costs, so this apprentice has started charging at work, because of course she doesn't have off street parking.

@alweb360 Месяц назад

When isn't the government subsidising rich people.?

@robpinter5431 Месяц назад

So us in regional areas that are unable to use a EV due to the distance from town is now subsidising rich inner city elites....

@emmett3067 Месяц назад

Yeah, the same ones that pay most of the income tax in the country.

@peterhofland1862 Месяц назад

How far from town are you, over 200km?

@aliendroneservices6621 Месяц назад

0:52 Who here remembers *_Jolt Cola™,_* from the 80s?

@chrisfallis5851 Месяц назад

Twice the sugar and twice the caffeine. It was glorious.

@colinarnett9546 Месяц назад

Once upon a time, mainstream media would have been all over this....

@stevec3526 Месяц назад

John, I love your enlightened snarky humor. Today I saw two Cybertrucks. One natural Stainless, and one Midnight Black. Wow, in black it is even uglier.

@bentullett6068 Месяц назад

You must have been watching Geoff (Geoff Buys Cars) and Lee's (The MacMaster) recent trip as they were talking about the subsidised by Porsche Ionity/BP Pulse charging rates. They were saying in their videos that the subsidised money had to come from somewhere and that somewhere was most likely part funded by tax payers.

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

Petrol is heavily subsidiesed. So are the panels on Johns house.

@ThanhNguyen-ds1kl Месяц назад

@@binauralauto3621 So are EV purchases.

@bordersw1239 Месяц назад

The money comes from the purchase of the car - 1st three years membership gives lower rates. After three years it’s something like £180 per year membership to access the lower rates.

@duckmcf Месяц назад

It’s nice to see that New South Shitsville is doing it’s best to crank up your level of state debt in a feeble attempt to match the People’s republic of Vicwegia…

@kirkjohnson6638 Месяц назад

Any free electricity initiatives should be recast as free energy initiatives and then there could be free gasoline, free diesel, free propane, free LNG, free natural gas, free fuel oil, free coal, free firewood, free charcoal, and so on.

@timysenda2700 Месяц назад

This is as currupt as bus only lanes.

@MrStephendowns Месяц назад

7kW isn't much at all - less than $5 if you do Tesla fast charging, less than $1 for most home charging. I suspect the free parking likely much more valuable.

@batmanlives6456 Месяц назад

7 kw won’t get you far in those sh-tboxes…. They would use that o’ nite maintaining heating or cooling their batteries and maintaining their security systems….

@MrStephendowns Месяц назад

@@batmanlives6456 Not true - 7kW approx 50km in a Tesla model 3 (Kia EV9 another story) - enough for many people to do the return trip to work

@stusue9733 Месяц назад

Where do you live that you can get 7kWhr for "less than $1"?

@MrStephendowns Месяц назад

@@stusue9733 Lots of power companies have plans which sell power in the wee small hours for less than 10c per kWhr

@michaelw6173 Месяц назад

Well that is BS, I am charged General Usage at $0.405240/kWh and Controlled Usage at $0.194590.

@floxy20 Месяц назад

Added bonus: EVs chew up road surfaces at a greater rate than normal cars.

@GraemeHart8888 Месяц назад

Do you have any proof of this claim? There are many much heavier vehicles on the roads.

@sneakyfoz3692 Месяц назад

⁠@@GraemeHart8888 why would you need evidence when you can just compare the weight of an EV with its equivalent ICE vehicle? Greater weight multiplied by millions of EVs equals more wear on the roads, pretty simple.

@ScottMurrayBestFamilyCars Месяц назад

@@GraemeHart8888 Camry hybrid SL: 1655kg vs Tesla Model 3 (poverty): 1761kg. -- 6% heavier. Corolla hybrid: 1400kg vs BYD Atto 3: 1750kg. -- 25% heavier. Santa Fe Highlander diesel: 1943kg vs ...couldn't find an equivalent EV currently on sale. Model X? 2.48 tonnes. 27% heavier.

@GraemeHart8888 Месяц назад

@@ScottMurrayBestFamilyCars A two axle truck in Australia is allowed to weigh up to 16,000kg. Any car, no matter how heavy, is producing very little wear on the road compared to a truck.

@GraemeHart8888 Месяц назад

@@sneakyfoz3692simple but wrong. Perhaps get an engineer to explain it to you. Here's a hint, 500 extra kg is irrelevant when you're driving on a road designed for trucks.

@user-ob1vt6vj3t Месяц назад

Why not put the money towards free public transport or a fuel card for people with low income. The EV owners in NSW had a $3000 rebate and free stamp duty if they were bought before 31/12/2023. There is a street charging point installed on the street where I live in Newcastle. I've never seen a car charging there.

@SMSFgraham Месяц назад

If it is free parking , how long before someone rigs up a false charging cable and pretends to charge up ??. Sounds like a plan.

@xpusostomos Месяц назад

Nothing wrong with splitting the infinitive in English.

@simoncrooke1644 Месяц назад

Yeah, it isn't a rule. Some Oxford professor, back in the day, declared that he didn't like the way it sounded. Who gives a flying fuck about that?

@ScottMurrayBestFamilyCars Месяц назад

Grammar saves lives. Do you want "let's eat kids" or "let's eat, kids"?

@xpusostomos Месяц назад

@@simoncrooke1644 because you can't split the infinitive in Latin, and Latin was what people worshipped

@michaelperry4308 Месяц назад

In WA the "Remote Charging Stations" are subsidised at $750 PER CHARGE, if 3 a day use it . PS it has a diesel generator as the battery will only give a 1/2 charge to the first car to arrive and none to the others without a long wait for solar charging. The diesel is topped up by sending a diesel vehicle out to refill the generator as they are too remote to do it with an electric truck, which we do not have.

@peterhofland1862 Месяц назад

No facts in your comment, but cool story though.

@michaelperry4308 Месяц назад

@@peterhofland1862 I live next door to the engineer responsible for the design and installation of the system, not everyone is a bullshitter! The facts are real as stated.

@fladave99 Месяц назад

Congress alloted 8 BILLION for a charger network and 3 years later have ONE built, citing GOVERNMENT BEURACRAT DELAYS

@MrButtonpresser Месяц назад

So, a base-wage factory worker driving a 2002 Hyundai is subsiding a non-tax paying retiree who drives an expensive EV.

@TonyScott896 Месяц назад

$14.5 Billion in subsidies for the fossil fuel sector in 23/24 and this is where you draw the line?

@SwampTrader Месяц назад

Cadogan for NSW Premier!

@hellomeatrobots Месяц назад

Get yourself an EV so you can take advantage of that $3AUS of public money! Sweet, sweet free money!

@rabidsminions2079 Месяц назад

Funds given for EV subsidies paid for by tax payers should be scraped and those funds should be redirected into making public transport cheaper or free if possible. That would get alot of people out of cars and would help pensioners, unemployed and low income people with the cost of living with cheap or free transport. This would have a massive effect on emissions by getting more people out of their cars which would also reduce congestion. A win win. EV owners are freeholders, no tax to maintain the roads, free parking, no FBT tx on certain EV's.

@cccmmm1234 Месяц назад

Any time something needs a subsidy it is inefficient, be that public transport, minimum wage or EV charging. Someone is always pays, it is never free.

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

Especially over 14 Billion in Oil and Gas subsidies the Australian Gov pays out every year. LOL. Imagine only paying 1.50 to drive back and for from work 40km everyday!

@markiliff Месяц назад

You left out the fossil fuel industry. In 2022 they trousered $7,000,000,000,000 in subsidies, which is 7.1% of global GDP. And they've been going over a century, so it's hardly start-up support. #hypocrisy

@davidwild66 Месяц назад

I was looking at replacing my old car...then I went to the dentist for a check-up and got some bad news. If the powers at be want to help the average mug, put dental care on Medicare.

@waynelevett3632 Месяц назад

I sold my beautiful electric Nissan leaf for 16k AUD. I owned it for 4 years and lost 9k. I drove it 50k klm for free. Tax payers didn't actually pay for it. It came off western powers bottom line. I now have a 55k Tesla. It was 250k new ?. Some rich dood made a gigantic loss when i bought it. I am loving the free electric here in WA 😂. I put every cent i have to buy my EV. Early adopters paying a fortune for a new EV deserve some compensation as they are the people buying new and selling to the public for a cheap enough price to get everyone into one eventually?

@AaronJohnson1 Месяц назад

Come to Newcastle and take a look at what the council here did. Used our rates to fund a solar roofed EV only car park right across the road from Newcastle's most exclusive waterfront restaurant. Yep, rich EV owners are parking and charging for "free" whilst they slam down expensive plonk over $350 seafood platters on a long lunch. This same council is slamming people with multiple parking infringements who have been priced out of housing and sleep in their cars overnight in the same precinct.

@Knight.. Месяц назад

Damn, he really has it out for the EVs now huh.. damn near every video is an anti EV propaganda video now, Show us where on the doll that the EV touched you john. This used to be a cool informative car channel, but at some point over the last year it slowly morphed into Matt Canavan's twitter feed, Starting to wonder if Potato McVoldemeort has been giving old mate a reach around when the cameras aren't rolling. And I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact the best selling EV brand sells direct to the public thus making them a direct competitor to his brokerage service.

@kimchristensen2175 Месяц назад

I'm sure he does it simply for views. Anything critical of EVs will bring a flood of rightwingers to the channel. I've notice a few other RU-vidrs who've gone that route.

@Muppetkeeper Месяц назад

The taxpayer has been giving billions of dollars to the oil companies for decades.

@ss3man1 Месяц назад

Shhhhh they don't want to hear that here

@Guvament_bs Месяц назад

Not true but EVangetist fan boys love to spread falsehoods at every opportunity.

@quietackshon Месяц назад

If you're talking about Australia, then you're wrong. I just fact checked your claim and it's a made up piece of political BS by the Greens. Do your home work, rather than "Listen and Believe", before showing other your lack of knowledge on this topic. First thing to you need to know is what is a subsidy and how is that different from a tax credit?

@Muppetkeeper Месяц назад

@@ss3man1 They really don't want to hear that dozens of times a year in the UK we have excess wind generated electricity, and people charging their cars during these times actually reduce the electricity bills for the rest of us. I know it's a flawed market mechanism, but you play with what you have.

@ss3man1 Месяц назад

@@Muppetkeeper Definitely not! Or that oil companies like chevron had a revenue of 9.2 billion in 2020 but only paid 30 dollars in tax ( in Australia). That would be a much harder target than a car powered by electricity 😀

@aoleo91 Месяц назад

And yet the Australian government subsidises fossil fuels $14.5 billion a year? EV subsidies are basically nothing compared to that.

@osxwrangler Месяц назад

I worked for a private university in Texas for many years. When electric cars came out the university thought it would be a great idea to allow them to charge their cars and use special highly prized first floor parking places in our garage. At one point I figured up how much it would cost to recharge a car vs. the parking fee and petrol I used each day to get to work. I then confronted the administration asking if they would be able to pay my fuel cost per month as they are doing with the electric cars. They were appalled by my outrageous request. The university decided on this policy to encourage people to buy electric and do green things. I don’t know what they will do when many more electric cars want to park in the garages for free electricity. These owners never have to charge their cars at home ever because they are able to charge their cars for free on the university dime.

@osxwrangler Месяц назад

Oh! And the owners of these cars tend to plug them in and leave them there allowing day. Too bad for the other few owners who get to campus late and miss the opportunity of one of the chargers. The I noticed that generally the same folks got their special spot most every day. 👍🏼 I’m retired now and don’t give a boink.

@rogermckenzie2711 Месяц назад

Next, an episode covering the subsidies given to fossil fuel companies...??

@enforcer41 Месяц назад

At the moment I export loads of power back to the grid and get nothing back but shortly it will charge an EV and I expect to rarely if ever pay for EV fuel again.

@apoc341 Месяц назад

Nothing like paying for rich people to fill up their EV wet dreams.

@Bergo101 Месяц назад

Imagine being so worked up by tiny tax dollars being used to create a cleaner world. Wow.

@lajya01 Месяц назад

I wasn't alive back then but did governments subsidized gas stations construction and provided free gas for rich horseless car owners back in 1910?

@OldGuyAdventure Месяц назад

In Alberta, they have a law that says they can not re-sell electricity, so we have all these free-charge docks in communities. Right now, a car is looking at a viability for a place to live because our government has invited millions into a country with no housing and no jobs.

@roland-if4zx Месяц назад

I have a 1997 lexus es 300 . Still drives great . good for another 20 years easily . .I bought it 2nd hand 15 years ago . best buy I ever made . I don,t want or afford a new piece of junk .

@duckmcf Месяц назад

Similar story here. Around 11 years ago I bought an Audi A4 Quattro. It’s great to drive and the best part is it doesn’t have all that modern tech, like lane assist, stop/start, etc., that annoys the shit of me whenever I hire a car when I’m interstate.

@alanwilson4208 Месяц назад

The type of EV I can probably afford is going to be a Golf Cart. Hang on take that back, just checked the prices of Golf Carts and forget it not a chance.

@elliottanderson9507 Месяц назад

don't worry soon they'll have free gas stations where you can get up to 5 liters of gas per week

@bomberaustychunksbruv4119 Месяц назад

That makes my blood boil John.

@davidbrayshaw3529 Месяц назад

I wonder why our forefathers chose to use public funds for trams, trains and buses?

@binauralauto3621 Месяц назад

LOL depending on where you live. Most countries pay Billions for oil and gas subsidies. We pay 8 bucks to fill up our EV taking us a whopping 300 miles. No free charging here!

@theairstig9164 Месяц назад

To get workers to factories so they can earn an income and pay tax while not polluting the roads with their shitty cars?

@davidbrayshaw3529 Месяц назад

@@theairstig9164 What a novel idea, and a good one at that!

@glynnec2008 Месяц назад

But why do the voters keep electing politicians who divert tax dollars to this nonsense? Instead of tax incentives to purchase EVs there should be a *surcharge* to fund these infrastructure projects.

@actualfacts1055 Месяц назад

Governments don't give you anything except for some of the money that you gave them, the rest of your previous money goes to other people.

@chrishewitt1165 Месяц назад

That can't be true John. The ALP are the party of the battlers

@user-pi3bv8os9n Месяц назад

Good morning John, We are currently using a Polestar 2 as a loan vehicle. Over the weekend I used an E.V. charging station (360EV) here in Brisbane. 55 kWh of charge, giving the Polestar 2 100%, took 6.5 hours and cost $17.35. It is so refreshing to hear you tell it like it is, especially with regards to low income earners of which I am one. It's a struggle. If Joe Somebody can afford to buy an E.V. then they can sure as heck pay for charging it. Kind regards

@brettski74 Месяц назад

"That figure is considerably higher in metro areas." Isn't that 30% entirely within metro areas?

@NeverGonaHappen Месяц назад

No doubt that these will be the most vandalised EV chargers in the country.

@davidcottrell570 Месяц назад

Think for a moment. Do you really want to start a fight over charging stations? Do you want someone to vandalize your car or a gas pump? The oil business is loving this, while getting massive subsidies from governments and still putting the price of fuel up. Yes, everyone can and should pay up for the use of highways, and no one should get a free ride. I could care less if you prefer a car with a gas or diesel motor - your choice. So why should you take issue with my plugging a car in overnight, or charging at a public station? If you want to get mad at someone, lose it with the oil companies making those rich people richer. They write off the expenses for their chauffeur driven limousines, private yachts and personal jets. The guy charging his Kia is just another working stiff like you. And his EV is barely any more expensive than your car - maybe less if it’s used. But it does cost less to charge in his garage and isn’t dependent on greedy oil companies.